Hello friends!
Sorry for the hiatus. I'm fresh back from surgery and with it have come severe dizzy spells that seem to worsen with reading text on a computer, so... not a lot of time spent online.
I've been waiting for a while to share this frock. Back in...oh, I guess it was Julyish, BurdaStyle.com contacted me and asked me to participate in a little competition of theirs. Now I'm not generally interested in competition for the sake of competition, but I can't lie: when the offer came with a free pattern from them, plus free material to make it in, how could I say no?
It was an interesting process because I wasn't really sure how this all worked as I went along. First assignment was to pick out a pattern out of the Burda Style Magazine designs on the website and a fabric pattern from the Westminster Liberty Art line fabrics. All of the fabric choices were much more extreme patterns than I had ever dared to tackle before, so there was no being shy about this. Considering the number of crazy darts in the pattern I chose, I thought perhaps a busy pattern would be better than a sparse one.
For pattern, of course I was drawn toward the dress with the low v back. Of course.
In retrospect, I do kind of wish I'd chosen a different pattern because I noticed after making my selection that this pattern required material with a cross-wise stretch to it. The material I had to chose from did not have any stretch. That's not the end of the world with this dress, but it sure does make it a 'wiggle skirt' in the truest sense of the word. One can't help but walk like Joan Holloway in this one.
The other notable hitch with this pattern is a bit of a mystery to me: the sizing. I first cut out the pattern to the sizing for the pattern according to what it said it should be for my measurement. This already included the usual jog up one size at the hips and down two at the waist. But when I made my initial try of the dress it was HUGE on me. Not even kidding here: I ended up taking the bust and hips down two sizes from what it said I should be, and taking the waist down 3...and it is still far from fitted around my waist. Very odd.
Sorry for the hiatus. I'm fresh back from surgery and with it have come severe dizzy spells that seem to worsen with reading text on a computer, so... not a lot of time spent online.
I've been waiting for a while to share this frock. Back in...oh, I guess it was Julyish, BurdaStyle.com contacted me and asked me to participate in a little competition of theirs. Now I'm not generally interested in competition for the sake of competition, but I can't lie: when the offer came with a free pattern from them, plus free material to make it in, how could I say no?
It was an interesting process because I wasn't really sure how this all worked as I went along. First assignment was to pick out a pattern out of the Burda Style Magazine designs on the website and a fabric pattern from the Westminster Liberty Art line fabrics. All of the fabric choices were much more extreme patterns than I had ever dared to tackle before, so there was no being shy about this. Considering the number of crazy darts in the pattern I chose, I thought perhaps a busy pattern would be better than a sparse one.
For pattern, of course I was drawn toward the dress with the low v back. Of course.
In retrospect, I do kind of wish I'd chosen a different pattern because I noticed after making my selection that this pattern required material with a cross-wise stretch to it. The material I had to chose from did not have any stretch. That's not the end of the world with this dress, but it sure does make it a 'wiggle skirt' in the truest sense of the word. One can't help but walk like Joan Holloway in this one.
The other notable hitch with this pattern is a bit of a mystery to me: the sizing. I first cut out the pattern to the sizing for the pattern according to what it said it should be for my measurement. This already included the usual jog up one size at the hips and down two at the waist. But when I made my initial try of the dress it was HUGE on me. Not even kidding here: I ended up taking the bust and hips down two sizes from what it said I should be, and taking the waist down 3...and it is still far from fitted around my waist. Very odd.
So pretty! I love the low back :-)
ReplyDeleteThanks so much, Bobbin!
ReplyDeleteIn case anyone would like to check out the works of the other contestants, all of which I must say is wonderful, you can find them all here:
http://www.burdastyle.com/blog/burdastyle-members-create-one-of-a-kind-garments-with-liberty-art-fabrics